SAMOS 2012 - International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (SAMOS XII)

SAMOS is a premier and well-established conference on embedded systems organized annually since 2001. The conference brings together researchers from academia and industry on the quiet and inspiring northern mountainside of the Mediterranean island of Samos. It provides an environment where collaboration rather than competition is fostered. The conference considers new state-of-the-art mature research papers on all aspects of embedded processor hardware/software design and integration. SAMOS XII has IEEE technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE CAS Society (pending) and the IEEE SSCS Germany Chapter and the conference proceedings will be published in the IEEE Xplore (pending). Authors are invited to submit technical papers in accordance to the author's instructions describing original work in one of the following tracks:
The Applications, Systems, Architectures, and Processors Track
This track focuses on advances in the efficient execution of code across many platform domains. New microarchitectural techniques to improve the performance of vector, reconfigurable, multimedia, graphics, real-time, embedded, multithreading, SDR and low power processor architectures by exploiting novel parallel execution, memory hierarchies and cache architectures are welcomed. Moreover this track presents advances in efficient application execution and system implementation technologies exploiting novel architectural and microarchitectural techniques. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Novel Architectures and Micro-architectures for Embedded Systems
Application-specific and Domain-specific Embedded Systems
Embedded Reconfigurable Processors
Multimedia and Graphics Architectures and Processors
Energy-Aware and Low-Power Processors
Embedded Parallel Systems and Multiprocessor Systems-On-Chip
Memory Management and Smart Caches
Network-on-Chip Interconnects
Digital Signal Processors / Software Defined Radios
The Modeling, Design, and Design Space Exploration Track
This track focuses on design processes for embedded systems: specification and modeling languages and simulation, hardware/software and system synthesis and compilation strategies; performance and power estimation and analysis; design and design space exploration methodologies. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Hardware/Software and Algorithm/Architecture Co-design
Design Space Exploration Strategies, Algorithms and CAD Tools
Specification Languages and Models
System-Level Design, Simulation, and Verification
Hardware, Software and System Synthesis Techniques and CAD Tools
MP-SoC and Platform Based Design Methodologies
MP-SoC Programming, Compilers, Simulation and Mapping Technologies
Profiling, Measurement and Analysis Techniques and CAD Tools
(Design for) System Adaptivity
Testing and Debugging
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to contribute to a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). This issue will accept papers from all the topics of the SAMOS conference, ranging from the Applications, Systems, Architectures, and Processors Track to the Modeling, Design, and Design Space Exploration track.